Proposals received during the week as a possible start for the Short Story Contest

IV MICRO-STORY COMPETITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE

Part One: "A Good Beginning"

Good start fourth edition short storiesADULT CATEGORY – IN SPANISH:

17. "The night was falling apart around me like an absurd playing card where no one definitely won." Opium in the clouds, Rafael Chaparro Madiedo.

18. "I'm not Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I have stronger arms than they seem." Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami.

19. "Beautiful is the kingdom of love, but sad too." History of the heart, Vicente Aleixandre.

20. "I remember you as you were last summer”. Neruda, Angelina Gatell.

21. "As he climbed the winding slope of the Saint Agnes Cemetery, jumping on the bed of the old truck, Francis Phelan discovered that the dead crowd neighborhoods, even more so than the living." Iron Stem by William Kennedy.

22. "I loved her, and she also loved me sometimes”. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda.

23. 'Singing partners, the time that passes will have the shape and sound of guitar and when you want to lean into the past, the transparent time spring will reveal your singing integrity.” Elementary Odes, Pablo Neruda.

ADULT CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH:

2. “The next day wasn't much different than the previous.” "Dance, dance dance”, Haruki Murakami.

3. 'There wasn't a sound inside the emaciated chest cavity.” Slaughter House 5. Kurtz Vonnegut.

4. 'A telephone was ringing in the darkness- a tiny, unfamiliar ring”. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown.

5. “He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself.” The old and the sea, Ernest Hemingway.

6. “I first met Dean after my wife and I split up.” On the road, Jack Kerouac.

CHILDREN/JUNIOR CATEGORY – IN SPANISH: -

CHILDREN/JUVENILE CATEGORY – IN ENGLISH: -

DELIVERY DEADLINE FROM “A GOOD START” to  library@iie.es until November 15, 2013.

One winner per category will be selected from among all the proposals received, who will receive as a prize a set of books from the Siruela publishing house, editorial collaborator of the contest.

See more details at:

http://bibliotecaiie.wordpress.com/i-concurso-de-microrrelatos-del-instituto-internacional/